Through detailed study of these women the author demonstrates the integral place of royal queens in the rule of the English kingdom and in the process of unific

Known in 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles' simply as 'the Lady', Emma was a wife, mother and widow as well as a queen. Standing at the meeting point of the three cul

In England in Europe, Elizabeth Tyler focuses on two histories: the Encomium Emmae Reginae, written for Emma the wife of the Æthelred II and Cnut, and The Life

What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuo

The first-ever biography of the most powerful woman of tenth-century England.